I love Android, I really do – and I especially love how imminently customizable and tweakable it is, regardless of how sometimes carriers and Google itself will try to arrest some of that tweaking and hacking. Still, it’s probably the…

Over at Google I/O last week, one of the interesting but under-reported items on the event floor was the Meta Watch from FOSSIL. The folks over at This Is My Next managed to play with it a bit, and in…

I hear it all the time: everyone wants a smartphone, but not everyone wants to type on a screen, no matter how good alternative screen keyboards like Swype or SwiftKey really are. Considering the most powerful and popular phones entering…

I’ve reviewed a bunch of mobile apps that promise to help you text while walking or in motion without forcing you to not pay attention to where you’re going, but this is the first time I’ve seen an app that…

Reports are that the Motorola Xoom – the iPad’s first real competitor, and the first Android tablet to run Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” isn’t selling quite as well as people had hoped. Admittedly, there are likely a number of reasons for…

(this brand new image for Spinning Gears columns is courtesy of Narilka, who graciously gave permission to use it!) So the blogs have been buzzing recently thanks to a report that for SpaceTime Studios, the developers of the popular mobile…

(image courtesy of Engadget) Oh yes, it was predictable, but someone had to go there: as soon as the iPad 2’s specs were released, it was just begging to be compared to every other high-end tablet on the market today,…

Google had a huge announcement today: partially unveiling Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” which we all knew was coming and were waiting for details on, and partially to show off a new, revamped Android App Market (finally with a Web-based store that…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to the Motorola Xoom as much as the next person, but the tone they’re taking with this new piece – which points fun directly at Apple’s iconic 1984 ad and clearly calls Apple…